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Contribs.org Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: crazybob on September 19, 2013, 01:35:51 AM
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I am working on a SME 7.4 server that is going to be replaced with a SME 8.0 server. I have started a backup to usb on the server. I started it on site, but had to leave. I have access to the server from my location. Is there any way I can monitor the progress of the backup remotely either by looking at a log file, or a command from the command line?
Thanks
Bob
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crazybob
top -i
too see the active processes
df -h
to see if USB drive is still mounted
You can open mc & explore the mounted drive (assume under /media) to see the backup files but this is not particularly informative.
FYI a recent full backup using affa to local 2Tb USB took 4.5 hours, 320Gb of data on server.
I do not think there is anything that will tell you ie 10% done, 50% done etc.
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Thanks Janet, The df -h is showing me how data has been transferred to the usb drive. It is going very slowly as the usb port is probably only 1.1
Bob
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crazybob
It is going very slowly as the usb port is probably only 1.1
Yes & depending on the compression setting & CPU speed etc, your CPU may be working very hard, which will also slow things down significantly.
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I also just noticed that the server hard drive is full. So I am guessing that is another reason things are going slowly.
Thanks again for the info
Bob
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Wound up using affa. Worked great. Thanks for the reminder Janet. That was much faster then using USB. :-P